International Relation MCQs

The ‘unipolar moment’:

A. occurred on September 11th 2001
B. Refers to US primacy since 1989
C. Is over, according to most IR theorists
D. All of the options given are correct

Nuclear weapons crises during the cold war included which of the following?

A. Cuba (1962)
B. Able Archer (1983)
C. The Arab Israeli War (1979)
D. All of the options given are correct

The Sinatra doctrine:

A. Was a catchphrase for foreign policy under Gorbachev
B. Replaced the Khrushchev doctrine
C. Followed glasnost and perestroika
D. Was a catchphrase for foreign policy

The first three states to achieve nuclear capability were (in order):

A. The US, the USSR, China
B. The USSR, the US, France
C. The US, the USSR, Britain
D. The USSR, the US, Britain

Which of the following were efforts to achieve more cooperative relations between the Western and Communist countries?

A. Detente with the USSR
B. Rapprochement with China
C. German Ostpolitik
D. All of the options given are correct

The First World War led to dissolution of which of the following empires?

A. Britain
B. Russia
C. Portugal
D. France

Under a structural explanation, the central problem of European security in the first half of the twentieth century was:

A. Nationalism
B. Economic crisis
C. The rise of a united Germany
D. None of the options given are correct

Historian A.J.P. Taylor:

A. Wrote Germany’s Aims in the First World WAR
B. Argued that Hitler was no different from other German political leaders
C. Located the caused of the Second World War in Hitler’s personality
D. All of the options given are correct

Which of the following offers an alternative to international society as a way of organizing world politics?

A. Hierarchical
B. Hegemonic
C. Imperial
D. Hierarchical, Hegemonic, and Imperial

Which of the following is not a challenge to international society, posed by globalization?

A. Interstate war
B. Global warming
C. American power
D. Dissolution of the bonds of political community